Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Imec Vzw

28 pending office actions • 21 art units • 27 examiners • 0 of 28 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 78 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

28
Total Pending OAs
19
Non-Final OAs
9
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

12
Overdue
2
Due this week
9
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
5
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 28 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (12)Due ≤ 7 days (2)Due ≤ 30 days (9)Due later (5)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
21
Medium (75%)
6
Easy (21%)
1
Unknown (4%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only20 (71%)
§102 only1 (4%)
§112 only6 (21%)
No statute on record1 (4%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
18% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
4% of docket
20
Semiconductors
71% of docket
2
Mechanical / Eng
7% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

280 h
Manual time on pending OAs
56 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
98 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
2.5 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
KIM, SU C 2 77.4% -12.1%
ZHANG, RICHARD Z 1 64.4% +66.2%
RADKOWSKI, PETER 1 76.0% +8.4%
CAPUTO, LISA M 1 16.7% +0.0%
KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1 46.8% +33.9%
VU, VU A 1 92.3% +6.6%
WALL, VINCENT 1 61.8% +25.1%
BHATIA, AMIT R 1 75.0% +30.0%
ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH 1 77.8% +25.0%
YUSHINA, GALINA G 1 79.1% +16.9%

Quick Wins (1)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18392429 NANOPORE SENSING DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE SENSING LAYERS VU, VU A 62d

Hard Cases (1)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18579646 PHOTONIC INTEGRATED SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE CAPUTO, LISA M 5d overdue

Interview Candidates (6)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 6 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18392362 Electrochemical Synthesis of Molecules on a Surface KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 5d
18514461 Method for Forming an Interconnection Structure ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH 22d
18528865 MULTISTAGE FEED NETWORK, SUPERCONDUCTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SUPERCONDUCTING SYSTEM BHATIA, AMIT R 27d
18655789 Gas Injected Chemistry for Single Wafer Processing ZHANG, RICHARD Z 28d
18545730 Tunneling Enabled Feedback FET WALL, VINCENT 75d
18500642 MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE WITH IN-PLANE MAGNETIC LAYER YUSHINA, GALINA G 84d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2817 3
2874 2
2899 2
3791 2
2818 2
2828 2
1714 1
1795 1
2897 1
2898 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18655789 Gas Injected Chemistry for Single Wafer Processing ZHANG, RICHARD Z 1714 §103 Final Rejection 28d Pending May 06, 2024
18683156 AN OPTICAL ANTENNA FOR OPTICAL PHASED ANTENNA ARRAYS RADKOWSKI, PETER 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 42d overdue Pending Feb 12, 2024
18579646 PHOTONIC INTEGRATED SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE CAPUTO, LISA M 2874 §103 Non-Final OA 5d overdue Pending Jan 16, 2024
18392362 Electrochemical Synthesis of Molecules on a Surface KOLTONOW, ANDREW ROBERT 1795 §103 Final Rejection 5d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18393221 MICRO-ELECTRONIC COMPONENT COMBINING POWER DELIVERY AND COOLING FROM THE BACK SIDE KIM, SU C 2899 §103 Non-Final OA 2d overdue Pending Dec 21, 2023
18392429 NANOPORE SENSING DEVICE WITH MULTIPLE SENSING LAYERS VU, VU A 2897 §103 Non-Final OA 62d Pending Dec 21, 2023
18545730 Tunneling Enabled Feedback FET WALL, VINCENT 2898 §103 Non-Final OA 75d Pending Dec 19, 2023
18528865 MULTISTAGE FEED NETWORK, SUPERCONDUCTING SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FABRICATING SUPERCONDUCTING SYSTEM BHATIA, AMIT R 2842 §112 Non-Final OA 27d Pending Dec 05, 2023
18524355 Method for Forming a Semiconductor Device KIM, SU C 2899 Non-Final OA 9d Pending Nov 30, 2023
18514461 Method for Forming an Interconnection Structure ESIABA, NKECHINYERE OTUOMASIRICH 2817 §112 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Nov 20, 2023
18500642 MAGNETORESISTIVE RANDOM ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE WITH IN-PLANE MAGNETIC LAYER YUSHINA, GALINA G 2811 §112 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Nov 02, 2023
18287501 A SAMPLE COLLECTOR EPPERT, LUCY CLARE 3791 §112 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Oct 19, 2023
18474803 Process for Wafer Bonding TURNER, BRIAN 2818 §103 Non-Final OA 84d Pending Sep 26, 2023
18468181 Fabrication of Through-Silicon Vias CUNNINGHAM, KIERAN MURRAY 2893 §103 Non-Final OA 22d Pending Sep 15, 2023
18349046 LAYER STACK FOR FERROELECTRIC DEVICE WARREN, MATTHEW E 2815 §103 Non-Final OA 38d overdue Pending Jul 07, 2023
18324752 SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES AND METHODS OF PRODUCING THE SAME DUREN, TIMOTHY EDWARD 2817 §103 Final Rejection 26d Pending May 26, 2023
18324791 MIXED METAL OXIDE INCLUDING MAGNESIUM AND ZINC NGUYEN, CAM N 1736 §103 Non-Final OA 19d Pending May 26, 2023
18197841 VERTICAL LASER EMITTER AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF NELSON, HUNTER JARED 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 23d Pending May 16, 2023
18304508 AUTOMATED DEFECT CLASSIFICATION AND DETECTION SHIN, SOO JUNG 2667 §103 Final Rejection 74d overdue Pending Apr 21, 2023
18031668 A COLLECTING DEVICE AND A METHOD FOR COLLECTION OF AIRBORNE PARTICLES FROM A FLOW OF AIR WEARE, MEREDITH H 3791 §103 Final Rejection 37d overdue Pending Apr 13, 2023
18010722 A METHOD FOR COMPUTING A HOLOGRAPHIC INTERFERENCE PATTERN CHANG, AUDREY Y 2872 §112 Final Rejection 117d overdue Pending Dec 15, 2022
18065918 Method for Bonding Dies to a Carrier Substrate OH, JIYOUNG 2818 §103 Final Rejection 24d overdue Pending Dec 14, 2022
18065130 Method for Forming a Semiconductor Device KOO, LAMONT B 2813 §112 Non-Final OA 60d overdue Pending Dec 13, 2022
18065122 Method for Forming a Precursor Semiconductor Device Structure FREY, KIMBERLY NEWMAN 2817 §102 Final Rejection 13d Pending Dec 13, 2022
18064133 STATIC RANDOM-ACCESS MEMORY DEVICE WITH THREE-LAYERED CELL DESIGN PARENDO, KEVIN A 2896 §103 Non-Final OA 49d overdue Pending Dec 09, 2022
17922024 COLLOIDAL QUANTUM DOT LIGHT EMITTERS AND DETECTORS EHRLICH, ALEXANDER JOSEPH 2828 §103 Non-Final OA 5d Pending Oct 28, 2022
17548119 Microfluidic Device Unit GORDON, BRIAN R 1798 §103 Non-Final OA 70d Pending Dec 10, 2021
17020008 PHOTORESIST FOR EUV AND/OR E-BEAM LITHOGRAPHY CHAMPION, RICHARD DAVID 1737 §103 Final Rejection 67d overdue Pending Sep 14, 2020

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